3. The three ballot measures in Oakland’s mail-only election were all defeated last night, including an $11 million a year parcel tax that would have helped stabilize the city’s fragile finances. Measure I, the parcel tax, mustered just 38 percent of the vote. Measure H, which would have made the city attorney’s position an appointed one, also lost badly. Only 25 percent of Oakland’s registered voters cast ballots. The election also came at a time when Mayor Jean Quan has lost support among progressives for her decisions to crack down on Occupy Oakland and among moderates for not cracking down earlier.

4. A federal lawsuit filed by the lead detective in the Chauncey Bailey case against the City of Oakland was dismissed yesterday, the Chauncey Bailey Project reports. The judge in the case said that there was no evidence that Oakland police officials had acted improperly when they sought to fire Sergeant Derwin Longmire, who had relationship with Yusuf Bey IV, the man who ordered the assassination of Bailey.